Tuesday, April 17, 2007

clip-fed rifle

The ammunition clip for this rifle is gravity-powered. The rifle has fully automatic and semi-automatic capabilities. By pulling back the bolt and locking it in the trigger, it is semi-automatic. If you pull back the bolt and quickly release and repeat the cycle, it is fully automatic. The nice thing about this you don't have to re-load it for a very long time if you've made a big magazine, as I have. The magazine shown here holds 54 rounds.


This picture is a close-up of the back of the bolt. The neon green piece with the white rod is the trigger mechanism. The yellow connector with green rod sticking up is the bolt. If you pull the bolt back, the firing pin (gray rod) moves back from the chamber, allowing a round from the magazine to slip into the chamber. For semi-automatic, you pull the bolt as far back as it can go and release. For fully automatic, pull the bolt back so its front end is just behind the trigger mechanism, then carefully and slowly place it against the back of the blue rod of the trigger mechanism, which crosses the firing chamber. Release with the trigger.

I made the bipod for the rifle so I could play nine pins with it. I made nine little K'nex targets. I was even thinking about using nine soda cans so that when I hit one, even if I don't see where I hit it, I would know because it would give a very satisfying clang! Posted by Picasa

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

cool, thats not a bad rifle. but you have some information wrong in the description.i just want to clear it up so if you ever post your guns on www.instructables.com you don't get criticized for false labeling.

this is not clip fed. it is mag fed. if it was clip fed then the clip would come off.

this is not semi-auto or full auto.
semi-auto is when the gun fires every time you pull the trigger(pull the trigger back almost all the way cocks the gun. pulling the trigger back all the way fires)

full auto is when the gun fires streams of bullets with the trigger pull.

this gun is a auto reload(theres nothing wrong with that!).

also, you might want to go to www.instructables.com and search knex assault rifle. you will find a gun with a similar barrel. it has a better trigger mec that you could use.

i am not saying this gun is bad or anything.

sincerely,
DSman195276